{"product_id":"beijing-xingwei-by-meiling-cheng-9780857420879","title":"Beijing Xingwei","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. In \u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei\u003c\/i\u003e, Meiling Cheng engages with such artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economical, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in its post-Deng era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei\u003c\/i\u003e—itself a critical artwork with text and images unfolding through the author's experiences with the mutable medium—contemplates the conundrum of creating site-specific ephemeral and performance-based artworks for global consumption. Here, Cheng shows us how art can reflect, construct, confound, and enrich us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd at a moment when time is explicitly linked with speed and profit, \u003ci\u003eBeijing Xingwei\u003c\/i\u003e provides multiple alternative possibilities for how people with imagination can spend, recycle, and invent their own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602816712940,"sku":"9780857420879","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857420879-beijing-xingwei.jpg?v=1778047850","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/beijing-xingwei-by-meiling-cheng-9780857420879","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}